Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-12-11

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writes Ella Wheeler Wilcox They are
q cd as synonymous terms, and coz
founded every day By able speakers
and writer's. Yet they are ~ uniike
e wild animal and an insect. Jeal-
ousy Is often the misbeh we'd child Of
nObse paFentagr. Envy y always base
born and plebefap. Jealousy otien
snifsrs untold egonies in silence, o.
strikes bold bows Ii the iace. Envy
stabs IN the darkness and behind the
back, Jealousy, 70 be, must hrst look
In the face of Love. Eugy can eAist
without ever having looked beyond ~
own refiection. Jealousy may spring
from sell-depreeiati0ns envy must
tpflne FROM seifsadulatl0n.
heard /. On egenaTked OF avon u
bile, WHO courted admiratilI but
laughed at love. that she Was q strange
paradox; she could not love, yet sue
Inhibited intense Jealousy e any OF
her numerous admirers bestowed ths'
iesst attention upon other isdies. Tbs
vas but another u illustration 81 tne
misnse OF the word The selfish be ie
had never SHOWN love, thereiore she
could not know jealousy. she was
nimtlv enviOns q the power hich
anv wosaan POSSESSED 70 draw her adj
mirers from her SIDE. She desired %
B. nlonopollst IN affairs VI the heart
a1ay 0ouldpss in the ntfectionai mar
let. aud she resented the interference
ang snlall dealer or dabbler IN the stock
OF Love.
Men exhibi this sort Of feeling 10 .
degree. though their broad and busy
lives prevent them from carrying u 10
the extent which mars the progress Of
woman everywhere. / have heard
physicians Of excellent stlnding decry
each other with rancof; musicians are
VIGOROUSLY enyious Of one anotners
authors, actors, and even business men
often forget that the world j. large
enough for all, and that success vgs
never obtained BY pulling down an
other man.
But this feeling, which takes root In
pelf and diSecss tts venom toward other
peoples schiegements and possessions,
& NOT jealousy. IL Is only foolish en-.
w. The meanest Is Fibut OF the hui
man niInd; the little fox which sRoiis
The vines; the rat which underulines
The wall OF q noble character; the
moth which destroys the beautiful f4B
nc Of the soul. II Il the child Of
selhshness and the companion Of hate.
Jealousy Is the unworthy child OF love
"a bad child, who ought 70 be governed
and chastised before be works harm to
his parent.
Love may eaist without jealousy, as
. man may live without offspring.
But jealousy cannot live without love
any note than an infant can be born
without parents. As the rule OF the
world Is that people beget offspring,
70 it Is the rule that love begets jeal-
ousy. IL women are more Jealous
than msn, Il Is only because they
I've more wholly IN tue atmosphere OF
love.
there are two types OF women who
are never susceptible Ut jealousy. One
Il the perfectly humble being. utterly
devoid OF individuality. who lives ia .
state Of wondering amaxement thai
abe should be the r eipient of her low
ere least regard. She 10 graf fui for
smile, and overwhelmed At . word OF
praise. She iinds greater Joy In low
Ing than Ia being loved, and is laint
echo Of the masculine mind in all TIER
opinions and ideas. She IL willing ~
Be The mat beneath his feet, to eat the
crumbs which fail from his table, 20
do hts most menial labor. She has The
nature Of = seFf, the devotion Of =
dog, and II be neglscgs her for hef
women, tas he usually d0esl she never
complains; as in his will she tinds her
only pleasure. Her nature Is patient.
mild nd constant, and devoid Of pas-
sion aud intensity.
The ether type Of women who know
no jealousy Il tie the opposite. she
e = radiai tly a4ppy creature, full OF
seif-conhdence, NgOtism and satisfac-l
ton. sha Is pleased With life and with
herself. She loves deeply, and de-
mands as mucn ~ she gives. She ex-
poets 20 be told every day that she Is
the most adorable woman on earth.
and she Is sure To convince q man OF
the fact. IL never enters her happy
head that another womsn could be Is
charming As herself, or that she could
b displaced in the aifeGtions I any
man she loves. She is a woman who
has been accustomed 70 love and adj.
miratiUn AL her life, and she knows
how TO keep her lover interested aud
amused. She Is sure that he find
other women dull In comparison with
herself, and she lends him freely % her
friends. certain that be will gladly re-
turn to her. The majority OF women
who lead = monotone - existence tive
In their imaginations and grow NOR
hldly sensitive.
Many a man ruins the peace Of bis
household forever by ntgiecting to
speak q word u praise which his
hunRry.hea ted wife has yearned all
day % hear, and hessowing ID upon
sotae chance caller OF stranger. The
man who fails 10 notice the careful
toilet his wife has made for bis sake
and compl ments the 30 q taste in
dress exhibited by someneighb0r, sows
the seed Of jeai0usy in . disappointed
heart.
Weman was made 70 be loved, pet.
ted and appr ciAted by man, What.
ever else she may achieve in life, she
ieels herself cheated out OF her birth
right unless this happ ness has come
to her. She Is jsalou, Of Whatever q
whoever may stand between her ami
that desired Joy | have known two
mothers who were jealous IL their Own
ehildren. Unnat raj and terrible Is
this may seem, l felt the greatest SYM
patty for both women. In each ease
the husband utterly ignored the wife
Tor her offspring. she was 4 secondary
consideration. neglected and reteuked
where the children were careSScd and
appreciated.
heard a woman who was = grand
mother remark one day thai she would
never have lived with her husband an
hour II be had once told her that be
thought another woman B auufol or
Interesting. Poor man OF course such
thoughts had entered hts mind; With
What 3 'erezy be must have guarded
them ali those years.
Jealousy Of sach petty type as hers
hsnrely the dWarfed and imbectle chud
o. lie parent. The woman whose life
q full OF sensible and nose duties Is less
given 80 nnreasoning jealousy than The
Killer who dwells Ia q world Of her own
imagining.
And tne woman who receives she
love and devotion which Is her birth
right seldom feels the pangs of ieal-
oaSy.